Family Life

Today was the last ice skating session for the summer. Daniel and I have been going every Friday for a couple of months, and we’ve really enjoyed it. Tonight Daniel was befriended by a couple of young girls. Eight years old, maybe? They helped him skate, talked to him, played with him, chased and raced [...]

I had two messages on my voice mail at work today. The first was from Joel, around 11am, describing excitedly in breathless detail his success on the potty. At a certain age potty training is difficult, and small victories are to be celebrated. I can understand that.
The second message was from Daniel, sometime after 1pm, [...]

Debbie went out tonight to run some errands and took Daniel and Micah with her. I stayed home with Joel. This was just perfect for a small boy–he had Dad all to himself. I asked what he wanted to do. Puzzles. Of course. It’s amazing how many hours that two-year-old can spend just doing puzzles.
We [...]

There was a lunar eclipse last night. I argued with myself over whether I was going to get up in the early hours of the morning to go out and photograph today’s event, but the need desperate craving for sleep won. The photo you see here was not of that eclipse. Later this morning I [...]

I regularly browse through the week’s popular photos on flickr, sometimes wishing I had the ability and artistry, or had the equipment to take photos that are that good. But most often I wish I had the time to invest in the painstaking attention to detail excellent photos require. Time is what I don’t have.
For [...]